removal 2: guess the game
removal 3: cute piggy or swine flu?
removal 4: look ma no hands
removal 5: "imma touch the sky"
Soap Bubbles by Jean Siméon Chardin
Jean Siméon Chardin takes us back to a realistic depiction of the 1700s with the artist’s lifelike paintings of still life and children, mothers and housekeepers performing daily activities. His work was commonly of simple scenes but held underlying influences much like the famous piece I have chosen for this project, Soap Bubbles. Soap Bubbles is an oil painting of a young boy peering down from a window blowing a bubble off a long stick while another younger boy watches vigilantly. The work pays very close attention to detail and relates to the time period and his life in a unique way that set him above other painters.
In the time period Chardin painted Soap Bubbles, the viewers looked to the blowing of bubbles as fun childhood activity but also to represent the transience of life. This devastatingly applies to the tragedy of his first wife and young daughter dying which led to Chardin’s series of bubble paintings. How I understand this is the bubble is interpreted then as his message to remember that nothing is permanent, and the ease of popping a bubble is just how fast any changes can happen in our lives—in a blink of an eye.
The painting is also praised for his consideration to the shapes he used to construct his piece. The rectangular frame, the boy’s triangular body form, the echoed triangle in the second little boy’s hat and the focus being a circle (identical in size to the admirer’s head) demonstrate the composition richness in its aesthetics. My changes will attempt to conserve the inspiration Chardin felt when painting this canvas, but naturally, take shape of something entirely different.
The changes I would like to make to augment this reality is to first take the time period and change his attire and appearance to be up to date with today’s time period. I want to do this to show how as much that has changed; the simplicity of a child’s life remains the same in their activities. Second, instead of a bubble coming from his mouth, I would like to have the boy eating spaghetti. Something that I learned from my grandmother that I always remember when I am with children is the transience, so to say, of being messy when children eat their food. No matter what mess I would make, nothing could upset my grandmother, because nothing is permanent. This is not to say the mess is purposeful but that spilling a drink or being covered in tomato sauce was not something to be concerned with or to be upset about. The third change I would like to make is for the location to not be the window but at a table, so his eating of spaghetti makes sense. The fourth change will be with the little boy behind him but be minor in his clothes. Lastly, the bubbles on the windowsill will become a sippy cup or drink to better fit with the scenery of my new augmented reality. These changes will change the meaning of Soap Bubbles, while striving to maintain the influence of what the artist hoped for this painting to represent.
GIF assignment
What would Krauss' thesis be , and how would it differ, if she were writing this article in 2015?
I do not think Krauss’ thesis would differ in writing the article in 2015 because of the similarities between video art in the time she wrote the piece to what we see today. For example, much of what we see on YouTube is people talking to themselves in their computers to make a video, which shares the narcissistic characteristic. People have accounts where there talk for hours about their lives or something their interested in. The feedback piece remains the same too, maybe even more so. You can instantly replay video to watch yourself or what you have filmed. In this sense, the narcissist is constructing a “statue” allowing themselves to be shaped in whatever form they choose. Krauss mentions the self to be as something that is malleable and can be altered and reconstructed. All of which is the same of today’s videos. There is self-reflection and self-alienation in the pieces that spoke to her time period, like Vito Acconci, and today’s YouTube bloggers. I would say a difference would be that even more so today, people use mediums like Facebook or Youtube to rely on you define yourself to world, which puts more emphasis on the narcissism present.
Krauss suggesting the medium is in the mind contrary to actually being physical art would remain the same in the video images still remaining in the same framework. The interpretation of the art may be different but she also talks about the concept of the medium when the artist makes the video. Again, the process is the same. We may be a little less obvious as we press stop on our laptop instead of having to walk behind the camera and end filming, the bridge between the artist and the camera is still present.
The differences lie in how technology has developed to pull what recording oneself once was represented more commonly as art, where today it’s more common to have access to cameras, phones, film so its theme is less inherently “art.” Also, what the art focuses on changes the narcissism because of how technology today allows people to do much more with a piece, and can alter oneself in many more ways.
Kygo Remix- I See Fire
mask 1: bryce canyon timelapse
mask 2: evolution v religion
removal 1: headbutt this
removal 2: guess the game
removal 3: cute piggy or swine flu?
removal 4: look ma no hands
removal 5: "imma touch the sky"
Soap Bubbles by Jean Siméon Chardin
Jean Siméon Chardin takes us back to a realistic depiction of the 1700s with the artist’s lifelike paintings of still life and children, mothers and housekeepers performing daily activities. His work was commonly of simple scenes but held underlying influences much like the famous piece I have chosen for this project, Soap Bubbles. Soap Bubbles is an oil painting of a young boy peering down from a window blowing a bubble off a long stick while another younger boy watches vigilantly. The work pays very close attention to detail and relates to the time period and his life in a unique way that set him above other painters.
In the time period Chardin painted Soap Bubbles, the viewers looked to the blowing of bubbles as fun childhood activity but also to represent the transience of life. This devastatingly applies to the tragedy of his first wife and young daughter dying which led to Chardin’s series of bubble paintings. How I understand this is the bubble is interpreted then as his message to remember that nothing is permanent, and the ease of popping a bubble is just how fast any changes can happen in our lives—in a blink of an eye.
The painting is also praised for his consideration to the shapes he used to construct his piece. The rectangular frame, the boy’s triangular body form, the echoed triangle in the second little boy’s hat and the focus being a circle (identical in size to the admirer’s head) demonstrate the composition richness in its aesthetics. My changes will attempt to conserve the inspiration Chardin felt when painting this canvas, but naturally, take shape of something entirely different.
The changes I would like to make to augment this reality is to first take the time period and change his attire and appearance to be up to date with today’s time period. I want to do this to show how as much that has changed; the simplicity of a child’s life remains the same in their activities. Second, instead of a bubble coming from his mouth, I would like to have the boy eating spaghetti. Something that I learned from my grandmother that I always remember when I am with children is the transience, so to say, of being messy when children eat their food. No matter what mess I would make, nothing could upset my grandmother, because nothing is permanent. This is not to say the mess is purposeful but that spilling a drink or being covered in tomato sauce was not something to be concerned with or to be upset about. The third change I would like to make is for the location to not be the window but at a table, so his eating of spaghetti makes sense. The fourth change will be with the little boy behind him but be minor in his clothes. Lastly, the bubbles on the windowsill will become a sippy cup or drink to better fit with the scenery of my new augmented reality. These changes will change the meaning of Soap Bubbles, while striving to maintain the influence of what the artist hoped for this painting to represent.
GIF assignment
What would Krauss' thesis be , and how would it differ, if she were writing this article in 2015?
I do not think Krauss’ thesis would differ in writing the article in 2015 because of the similarities between video art in the time she wrote the piece to what we see today. For example, much of what we see on YouTube is people talking to themselves in their computers to make a video, which shares the narcissistic characteristic. People have accounts where there talk for hours about their lives or something their interested in. The feedback piece remains the same too, maybe even more so. You can instantly replay video to watch yourself or what you have filmed. In this sense, the narcissist is constructing a “statue” allowing themselves to be shaped in whatever form they choose. Krauss mentions the self to be as something that is malleable and can be altered and reconstructed. All of which is the same of today’s videos. There is self-reflection and self-alienation in the pieces that spoke to her time period, like Vito Acconci, and today’s YouTube bloggers. I would say a difference would be that even more so today, people use mediums like Facebook or Youtube to rely on you define yourself to world, which puts more emphasis on the narcissism present.
Krauss suggesting the medium is in the mind contrary to actually being physical art would remain the same in the video images still remaining in the same framework. The interpretation of the art may be different but she also talks about the concept of the medium when the artist makes the video. Again, the process is the same. We may be a little less obvious as we press stop on our laptop instead of having to walk behind the camera and end filming, the bridge between the artist and the camera is still present.
The differences lie in how technology has developed to pull what recording oneself once was represented more commonly as art, where today it’s more common to have access to cameras, phones, film so its theme is less inherently “art.” Also, what the art focuses on changes the narcissism because of how technology today allows people to do much more with a piece, and can alter oneself in many more ways.
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